Noun: petit
| Singular | petit |
| Plural | petits |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like petit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English petit, from Old French petit, from Late Latin *pitittus, diminutive of Latin *pit-, possibly from Proto-Celtic *pett- (“part, bit, piece”) (see Latin pettia), or of imitative origin.
2. Compare also Latin pitinnus (“small”), pitulus, Italian pezza. Doublet of petty. See: Middle English Nouns '
petit', Latin Nouns '
pettia', Latin Nouns '
pitinnus', Italian Nouns '
pezza'.